Silent Hill: The Short Message was beforehand leaked by way of scores boards in each Taiwan and South Korea.
However, a brand new leak for the sport by the Australian Classification Board (ACB) have revealed far more than simply the sport’s existence – we’ve truly realized nearly all of the sport’s story and content material.
Editor’s Note: MASSIVE SPOILER WARNING for anybody within the recreation, as the main points focus on plot factors throughout the upcoming recreation.
The ACB’s report, which has since been taken down, however archived right here, discusses Silent Hill: The Short Message’s gameplay as an “exploration‑based mostly psychological horror recreation” that performs out from the first-person perspective, albeit with cutscenes in third-person as effectively.
Here’s the entire textual content from them. Again, spoiler warnings for the sport’s plot:
An exploration‑based mostly psychological horror recreation by which gamers management characters in an condominium constructing known as The Villa in fashionable‑day Germany. The participant assumes the position of a younger girl, Anita, who should discover The Villa by means of first‑individual gameplay as a way to accumulate clues and uncover what has occurred to her good friend. Anita is exploring a rest room surroundings which includes a bathtub stuffed with bloody water, blood‑splattered tiles and a razor blade on a bloodied sink. Upon inspecting a razor, Anita experiences a flashback. In a reduce‑scene depicted by means of a primary‑individual perspective, a voice yells, “This is all of your fault! Bad issues occur due to YOU!” and a hand holding the razor enters the body. The character’s left arm enters the body with horizontal scars evident throughout the character’s wrist. The scene cuts to a black display screen earlier than the razor makes contact with the character’s wrist.
The following shot options a picture of the character’s left arm with previous and contemporary scars. In a reduce‑scene depicted by means of a combination of third‑individual and first‑individual pictures, the participant character stands on the sting of the constructing’s rooftop, trying down. It is implied that Maya dedicated suicide by leaping off the ledge of the rooftop. The participant character, in a distressed frame of mind, speculates that she is going to by no means evaluate to Maya. Echoes of her mom’s abusive tirades are heard within the background as Anita prepares to leap and says, “Maybe I could be like her… Here goes…” In a primary‑individual shot, her ft are seen close to the sting of the ledge earlier than, in a 3rd‑individual shot, she steps off and begins to fall.
Throughout the sport, reduce‑scenes depicting self‑hurt and suicide are adopted by black screens which function white textual content encouraging gamers to hunt therapy and assist if they’re prone to self‑hurt and suicide and to supply help in the event that they see individuals round them struggling. In the Board’s opinion, depictions of suicide and self‑hurt throughout the recreation happen within the broader context of discourse exploring points revolving round psychological well being which inspires gamers to hunt assist or provide help to these in want. As such, the impression of the depictions doesn’t exceed robust in impression and could be accommodated throughout the MA 15+ classification.
Currently Silent Hill: The Short Message has but to be formally introduced. Coming from this – its launch date and platforms are nonetheless unknown as of this writing.
